restore points

[Charles Cashion]

Running Windows WP Home on an IBM Think Pad R40 with
256MB memory and 10GB HD. I have 12% (1.2GB) reserved
for restore points BUT there is never more than a
single restore point choice when needed. My system
apparently creates one restore point each morning when
I first turn on Windows XP. And that will be the only
choice.

Thank you,
Charles Cashion

 

[Mike Hall \(MS-MVP\)]

Charles

You may not have room for another.. an extract from an MS KB..

Disk space used by System Restore by default:

. For drives greater than 4 GB, System Restore uses up to 12% of
the disk space

. For drives less than 4 GB, System Restore by default only uses
up to 400 MB of disk space

. The data store size is not a reserved space on the disk and
the maximum size (to the max values defined above) is limited at any time by
the amount of free space available on disk. Thus, if disk space use
encroaches on the data store size, System Restore always yields its data
store space to the system. For example, if the data store size is configured
to 500 MB, of which 200 MB is already used, and the current free hard-disk
space is only 150 MB, the effective size of the data store is 350 MB (200 +
150), not 500 MB.

. Note that disk space usage can be adjusted at any time

and a link to the entire KB..

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/plan/faqsrwxp.mspx

 

[Gerry Cornell]

Charles

How much free space is there on your hard drive?

Is it formatted as FAT32 or NTFS?

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England

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[Charles Cashion]

Charles

How much free space is there on your hard drive?

Is it formatted as FAT32 or NTFS?

Gerry,
I am formatted NTFS
C:\ Properties
6.90 GB Used
2.86 GB Free
9.76 GB Total

Thank you,
Charles